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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Steven Penfold |
| ISBN: | 9780802097972 0802097979 9780802095459 0802095453 |
| OCLC Number: | 166687872 |
| Description: | xi, 256 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: History from the bottomless cup -- Faith, efficiency, and the modern donut: inventing a mass commodity, 1920-1960 -- 'Our new palace of donut pleasure': the donut shop and consumer culture, 1961-1976 -- 'He must give up certain things': franchising and the making of the donut shop, 1960-1980 -- Expansion and transformation: colonizing the Canadian foodscape, 1974-1999 -- Eddie Shack was no Tim Horton: donuts and the folklore of mass culture in Canada, 1974-1999 -- Conclusion: Commodity and culture in postwar Canada. |
| Responsibility: | Steve Penfold. |
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A fascinating history of Canada's favourite treat.-Araminta Wordsworth
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